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The May Day demonstrations in Paris passed off without any

untoward results. The streets of Central Paris, depleted by an exodus of the well-to-do, remained tranquil and semi- deserted throughout the day ; the Anarchist and Royalist plots failed to "materialise"; and the crowds which thronged the immediate neighbourhood of the headquarters of the Trade- Unions were, it seems, almost wholly composed of loafers, and were easily controlled and dispersed by the huge force of police and soldiers commanded by M. Lepine. Whatever may have been the intentions of the discontented residuum, little was done to justify the panic of the respectables. Paris still remains the city in which the expected least often happens.

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